20 Writing Tasks You Can Do in 15 Minutes or Less

Sep 24, 2016

The most common concern I hear from academic writers is that they don’t have enough time to move a project forward. Over and over, I have people tell me that they have to have 2–3 hours of uninterrupted time in order to write.

This is false.

There are many tasks that you can do in 15 minutes or less that will add up to a completed project over time. Generating the content for your academic writing is only a small component of what gets articles and books out the door.

In my experience, writing is 20% new content and 80% revision and you can’t revise an empty page.

Aside from generating new content, there are a lot of other tasks that can “count” to progress your projects forward.

Here are my top 20 tasks to move your writing forward in 15 minutes or less.